<p>Have you looked at the schools in the A&M and UT systems? Not UT Austin and TAMU College Station, but places like TAMU Kingsville or UT Pan American. The total cost of attendance at one of these schools is between $10,000 and $12,000. If your parents can truly pay $3 to $5K per year, you should be able to handle the rest with some scholarships, work study and a small student loan. If you do well, you can look at transferring. And both systems have medical schools.</p>
<p>Also remember that which school you are coming from matters in medical school admissions, as does ability to pay (increasing more so lately).</p>
<p>Texas Tech offers $6000/year for a CR+M score of 1400+, and top 10% of your class. Not sure if you mentioned your class ranking. Plus, Tech has it’s own medical school.</p>
<p>I think the OP could go to Steven F Austin State University for a very, very low price as well…</p>
<p>*Also remember that which school you are coming from matters in medical school admissions, *</p>
<p>Medical schools will accept any student with high MCAT and a degree and high grades in the right “pre-med” classes from any accredited college that is strong in bio, chem, math, physics. That may not include some unknown, unranked, directional schools, but many mid-tier and 3rd tier schools are “good enough.”</p>
<p>If this student is a junior, there are options to go without many (if any) loans. Loans need to be minimized, BECAUSE med schools sometimes will NOT admit you if they see that you’ve borrowed too much for undergrad. They are afraid that you won’t be able to borrow enough to finish med school.</p>
<p>So, borrow as little as you can. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I agree that if you want to go to medical school, you should not go to an unaccredited college, but (for example) the University of Akron, the University of Toledo, Cleveland State, Wright State (Dayton, Ohio), Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Wayne State (Detroit, Michigan) are fourth tier colleges and every year, some of the students who graduate from these colleges go to good medical schools. You can get a great education at a fourth tier college.</p>
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<p>Third tier schools: Depaul, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Temple</p>
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<p>*the University of Akron, the University of Toledo, Cleveland State, Wright State (Dayton, Ohio), Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Wayne State (Detroit, Michigan) are fourth tier colleges and every year, some of the students who graduate from these colleges go to good medical schools. You can get a great education at a fourth tier college.
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<p>Yes, the key is that the schools need to be strong in Bio, Chem, Math, and Physics, and should have a reputation for sending students to med school.</p>
<p>Who says Rutgers is a 3rd tier school?</p>
<p>Wayne State would be perfect. Many, many kids go to med school (including Wayne State’s own school)</p>
<p>How about Grove city College in PA? Their COA is around $18K which includes tuition, R&B, etc. You might have loans but at least you wouldn’t graduate owing $100K. Great education too.</p>
<p>Another suggestion, try applying to a school which is completely across type. Are you from the South? Apply to a college in northern Wisconsin or Idaho. Are you a minority? Apply to a school which might actively recruit you and sweeten the deal.</p>
<p>Many of the small Catholic (many in name only) colleges have endowments which sometimes go undistributed. The smaller the school (especially inthe midwest), the more money they are likely to have.</p>
<p>Looked again:<br>
Rutgers - Newark is the Rutgers listed in the Third Tier list with DePaul, Seton Hall, and Temple</p>
<p>Oh, that Rutgers…I thought you meant the flagship Rutgers. LOL</p>
<p>How about applying to McGill in Canada? They will often accept a student with high SAT, but not as high GPA. They are also relatively inexpensive. You’d have to take out loans, but something manageable.</p>
<p>I am going to take you off the beaten path… but there are options and still merit scholarships out there. </p>
<p>Take a day, put labels aside, and look at Loren Pope’s list of Colleges That Change Lives. (Google it and you will find their web site!) Granted, you many not have heard of many but these are top schools where you will receive a solid education. One that comes to mind is Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL. Another solid and unknown option is public honors colleges like St. Mary’s Honors College of Maryland. (BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS!) </p>
<p>Recently, I listened to the Dean of Admission for the University of Maryland’s Medical School speak. He mentioned that they are looking for well educated and rounded students who did not necessarily major in biology or chemistry. They much preferred students who knew how to think, communicate and who were well educated in their chosen discipline. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>You could get about $20,000 at Austin College. They are known for pre-med. Probably $18,000 at Oklahoma City U. SFA would probably give only $3000 but the COA would only be about $13000 a year. A&M Commerce would love you. Maybe Texas State?</p>
<p>Wow i just really want to thank all of y’all for your posts. They have helped me quite a bit. My school has 3,000 students and only 1 college and career counselor and the other 4 alphabet counselors are more concerned with getting students to pass standardized tests. Thank y’all so much. If anyone else has any other suggestions that’d be great, but y’all have already given me a lot to work with</p>
<p>You should apply to Alabama. <a href=“Page Not Found | The University of Alabama”>Page Not Found | The University of Alabama; </p>
<p>Quick app, no essays, no recs… Takes like 3 minutes to apply, you could do it tonight.</p>
<p>If your weighted GPA is a 3.5 (including all classes on your transcript - even PE), they may give you the scholarship anyway because your SAT is so high.</p>
<p>Gorgeous campus…great for pre-med…awesome facilities…great dorms (see link)</p>
<p><a href=“http://housing.ua.edu/ridgecrestsouth.cfm[/url]”>http://housing.ua.edu/ridgecrestsouth.cfm</a></p>
<p>PM me if you apply.</p>
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<p>Lowering yourself? Pullease. There are TONS of fabulous departments in some of these schools, with a lot of brilliant professors and students. Only fools go into debt to have a brand name bumper sticker. </p>
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<p>Utter and complete nonsense. I know with certainty you can get into great med school and or MBA program going to these schools without a problem. Same for PhD programs. Start searching the web to see where people came from…the student rosters, the phd students…and it will be clear. Last year the ‘hot’ PhD candidate that my colleagues and I were talking about recruiting to our respective PhD programs (my colleagues at CMU, Harvard, Stanford, my college…) graduated from ASU. </p>
<p>I went to a tippy-top school for my PhD. Half my classmates were from ‘no name’ schools along with students from the Ivies. You could not possibly tell in terms of our performance or our subsequent publishing success. Guess which of my classmates are now full professors at Harvard…you’d have never heard of their undergrad. I am still well connect to that school and they have the same wide draw from many schools in their PhD program. Its ONLY undergrad, don’t waste your money on it if you are going beyond that. Seriously.</p>
<p>Relevant thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/291483-update-what-i-learned-about-free-ride-scholarships.html?highlight=free+ride[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/291483-update-what-i-learned-about-free-ride-scholarships.html?highlight=free+ride</a></p>
<p>Would you consider a service academy or ROTC? This might be a way to get through med school too.</p>
<p>What is your weighted GPA?</p>